Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-27
A DROUGHT PREVAILED.
Beadie Tries in Vain to Find an Open
Door.

Beadie Tries In vain TO 1inu ~ w"
Door.
Especial Correspondence.
NEW YORK, May IS.
Sunday was a day without precedent IN
this city-the like of it never was since the
Dutch Puritan rule was overthrow, and per-
haps never will be again. On all Manhattan
Island prohibition was enforced with vlgor
and success unknown in any prohibition
state: from Harlem river to the Battery. and
from Hudson to East river, not drop OF
ANYTHING intoxicating could be bought by the
most talented evader. The reason Of this ex-
traordinary rigor lies in one fact The liquor
men we're for once in perfect accord with the
police, the latter nothing like as anxious to
enforce the law as the former were to keep 1t.
About dark Saturday the signs OF COM
ing drought were apparent in all the pubic
resorts Men who never before carried
bottle were getting their TASKS filled, and
bottled beer was going out of the big cellars
by the wagon load When it was known for
a certainty that the hotels would not sell any
thing next day, even to their regular guests,
there was something like panic.
"Won't you even send bottle Of wine to
nv roomY' asked an English American gen.
tleman at the Hotel Brunswick.
"Not drop of anything stronger than
apolinaris," was the reply; "better get all
you'll need tonight"
every well, send up pint bottle Of cock
tails, quart Of prime whisky and little
go of brandy. just send 'em to my room,
now" And it was done.
Sunday drove to Central park soon after
noon, with Hon. John w. Bookwalter, the well
known manufacturer, of Ohio, and the signs
of distress at various places showed that the
~
pared. 1t seemed to be taken for granted
that a newspaper man would certainly know
of some place where the trustworthy could
refresh but, for veal or for woe, newspaper
men were as ignorant as common people. The
universal testimony was that not one hotel
in the city had sold SO much as glass Of wine
or pony Of beer; and police reports so far
pretty nearly confirm it. Verify, it was New
Yorks day Tor perfect sobriety, the first she
has had for sixty years or more, and prob
ably the last she will suffer" for a century
But the park was at its lovelest-New York
ers say it is lovelier now than ever before
and the array of fine turnouts as well as of
people was the greatest for years. This is
perhaps the more remarkable, since some
authorities estimate that $4,000 or 100000
extra excursionists left the city on account of
prohitition.
Mr.. Bookwalter, after returning early this
year from his third extended tour in Italy,
Egypt and the far east, has thrown himself
into business again with renewed activity,
and is projecting extensive improvements on
his lands in the west as well as further in
vestments. His recent articles on economic
subjects, especially on the general decline of
prices and danger to the American grain
trade, have attracted great attention both
here and abroad. At the St Vincent hotel
in the park we met ex-senator Dorsey with
Mr.. Lake, OF The Tribune; and after care
full comparison of notes and an earnest ques-
tioning of the walters the two public men and
two journalists sat down to bottle of-apol.
linaris water! This settles the fact that pro-
hibition was indeed thorough last Sunday in
New York, for when two newspaper men, a
Travelled millionaire and Senator Dorsey can
not find the spirituous, you can safely swear
that none was to be had. j. II. BEADLE.